About

I study and teach early modern literature, especially the intersections of literature and law. I’ve written about the violence of the law in early modern England, critical prison theory, and human rights in children’s literature.

For the last eleven years, I’ve taught in Georgia prisons where I’ve discovered unparalleled intellectual freedom and creative collaboration. Along with my friend and colleague Bill Taft, I founded and co-direct the nonprofit Common Good Atlanta, which seeks to connect the humanities to the community. Common Good Atlanta is an all-volunteer consortium of 50 faculty from 6 universities teaching in 3 prisons. Since 2008, we’ve taught thousands of hours of college courses to the incarcerated.

I’m honored to be an Assistant Professor at Oxford College teaching Shakespeare and early modern literature.

sarah.higinbotham@emory.edu

Rare seventeenth-century edition of Milton, a gift for teaching use in both the prisons and free-world classrooms